SeaweedFS vs ZOT OCI Registry

Both are self-hosted file transfer - object storage & file servers projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

SeaweedFS scores 93 against ZOT OCI Registry's 74, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — ZOT OCI Registry may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
SeaweedFSZOT OCI Registry
Health score 93/100 74/100
Commits (11 mo) 3075 341
Commits (last 3 mo) 940 140
Stars 35k 2.8k
Latest release 14 Sept 2026 6 Sept 2026
Licence Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0
Built with Go Go, Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

SeaweedFS

SeaweedFS is an open source distributed file system supporting WebDAV, S3 API, FUSE mount, HDFS, etc, optimized for lots of small files, and easy to add capacity.

93/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 37/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 94% of tracked projects; popularity more than 93%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 110 commits 2025-11: 134 commits 2025-12: 279 commits 2026-01: 347 commits 2026-02: 238 commits 2026-03: 303 commits 2026-04: 360 commits 2026-05: 364 commits 2026-06: 316 commits 2026-07: 245 commits 2026-08: 379 commits

ZOT OCI Registry

A production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry.

74/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 22/40
Releases 25/25
Community 11/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 56% of tracked projects; popularity more than 56%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 33 commits 2025-11: 38 commits 2025-12: 20 commits 2026-01: 16 commits 2026-02: 21 commits 2026-03: 17 commits 2026-04: 32 commits 2026-05: 24 commits 2026-06: 25 commits 2026-07: 61 commits 2026-08: 54 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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